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architecture and design magazineSat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1"Chinese architecture will benefit" from CCTV building, says Rem Koolhaashttps://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/26/rem-koolhaas-defends-cctv-building-beijing-china-architecture/
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/26/rem-koolhaas-defends-cctv-building-beijing-china-architecture/#commentsWed, 26 Nov 2014 16:17:14 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=600740News: Rem Koolhaas has defended the design of OMA's CCTV tower in Beijing, after the Chinese president called for an end to the construction of "weird architecture" in the country. "I don't have the slightest difficulty in saying, or showing, or demonstrating, that CCTV is a very serious building," Koolhaas told Dezeen, when asked to respond to

"I don't have the slightest difficulty in saying, or showing, or demonstrating, that CCTV is a very serious building," Koolhaas told Dezeen, when asked to respond to comments made by China's president Xi Jinping.

During a speech at a literary symposium last month, the president said there should be "no more weird architecture" in China, referencing a number of oddly shaped structures that have popped up around the country during its construction boom.

Although he stressed that the link between the president's comments and OMA's skyscraper had been made after the speech, Koolhaas defended the building's shape and structure – which has caused it to be nicknamed "big pants" by locals.

"[CCTV is] a building that introduces new ways of conceptualising, liberating and realising structure that did not exist in China before, and of which I'm sure Chinese culture and Chinese architecture will benefit," he said. "It articulates the position and the situation of China."

Rem Koolhaas at CCTV Headquarters in Beijing. Still from Tomas Koolhaas' film REM

Completed in 2012 as the headquarters for China Central Television (CCTV), the 473,000-square-metre building comprises two towers that lean against each other and are connected by a 75-metre cantilevered section.

"The building makes a serious effort to organise a complex entity like CCTV into a coherent whole," Koolhaas said.

The Dutch architect was speaking to Dezeen after his talk at the Herald Design Forum as part of Seoul Design Week 2014, which opened today.

During the event, Koolhaas also mentioned to a group of journalists that he hopes to "have a conversation" with the Chinese president about his comments.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/26/rem-koolhaas-defends-cctv-building-beijing-china-architecture/feed/25OMA's CCTV building reconstructed as a wooden cabinethttps://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/19/omas-cctv-building-wardrobe-wooden-cabinet-naihan-li-design-miami/
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/19/omas-cctv-building-wardrobe-wooden-cabinet-naihan-li-design-miami/#commentsWed, 19 Nov 2014 20:00:26 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=595253Design Miami 2014: a wardrobe by Chinese designer Naihan Li shaped like OMA's CCTV tower in Beijing will go on show at Design Miami next month. Naihan Li created the 1:100 scale model of the building, completed by Dutch architecture firm OMA in 2012 as the headquarters for the Chinese Central Television company, to function as a wardrobe and storage cabinet.

Naihan Li created the 1:100 scale model of the building, completed by Dutch architecture firm OMA in 2012 as the headquarters for the Chinese Central Television company, to function as a wardrobe and storage cabinet.

Built from Brazilian rosewood, the furniture piece echoes the landmark's distorted loop shape and is carved with the same pattern of grooves used across the building's facade.

Sections of the structure open up to reveal storage compartments, including drawers with dividers in the base and a long cupboard housed in one of the towers.

CCTV Wardrobe is the latest piece in Li's I Am A Monument furniture series, which includes a bookcase in the form of the United Nations building in New York and day bed shaped like The Pentagon – home of the United States Department of Defence.

"I Am A Monument takes landmarks and shrinks them down to something on a more personal scale, allowing for a reimagining of how we look at the world," said Li.

The series references a legend of a Han Dynasty emperor who had the entire landscape of China recreated in miniature with bonsai trees.

CCTV Wardrobe will be displayed by Beijing and Los Angeles-based Gallery All at the Design Miami exhibition, taking place from 3 to 7 December.

The installation will include an animation showing the cabinet rotating, opening and closing along with animated fog to represent "the billowing smog of Beijing's wintery landscape", according to a statement from the gallery.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/19/omas-cctv-building-wardrobe-wooden-cabinet-naihan-li-design-miami/feed/7CCTV Headquarters by OMAhttps://www.dezeen.com/2012/05/16/cctv-headquarters-by-oma/
https://www.dezeen.com/2012/05/16/cctv-headquarters-by-oma/#commentsWed, 16 May 2012 09:45:29 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=210622The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing by architects OMA are now complete. Top: photograph is by Iwan Baan Above: photograph is by Philippe Ruault The CCTV building comprises two towers that lean towards one another and are bridged at both the the top and bottom to form a distorted loop. Above: photograph is by Iwan Baan The building contains TV studios,

Today OMA participated in the official construction completion ceremony for the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing, which will start to be used later this year. Designed by OMA as a reinvention of the skyscraper as a loop, construction on the building began in 2004. At approximately 473, 000m2, CCTV – accommodating TV studios, offices, broadcasting and production facilities – is OMA’s largest ever project and its first major building in China.

CCTV defies the skyscraper’s typical quest for ultimate height. Rising from a common platform, two towers lean towards each other and eventually merge in a perpendicular, 75-metre cantilever. The design combines the entire process of TV-making – formerly scattered in various locations across the city – into a loop of interconnected activities.

The structure of the CCTV Headquarters, and the forces at work within it, is visible on its façade: a web of diagonals that becomes dense in areas of greater stress, looser and more open in areas requiring less support. The façade itself becomes a visual manifestation of the building’s structure.

Rem Koolhaas commented: “I am very happy, after years of intense collaboration, that the CCTV building will soon begin to perform its role in the way it is intended.”

The CCTV project was led by OMA / Rem Koolhaas, former OMA partner Ole Scheeren (until 2010), OMA partner David Gianotten and project manager Dongmei Yao in close collaboration with partners Shohei Shigematsu, Ellen van Loon and Victor van der Chijs. The design team consisted of project architects Anu Leinonen, Charles Berman and Adrianne Fisher together with a team of over 100 architects from OMA.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2012/05/16/cctv-headquarters-by-oma/feed/17"Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing" - New York Timeshttps://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/13/koolhaas-delirious-in-beijing-new-york-times/
https://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/13/koolhaas-delirious-in-beijing-new-york-times/#commentsWed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=138753Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: "The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity". Read Ouroussoff's review | Read Dezeen's August 2008 story about

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/13/koolhaas-delirious-in-beijing-new-york-times/feed/1China Central Television Headquarters by OMAhttps://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/06/china-central-television-headquarters-by-oma/
https://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/06/china-central-television-headquarters-by-oma/#commentsWed, 06 Aug 2008 22:26:13 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/06/china-central-television-headquarters-by-oma/Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the cladding on their CCTV building in Beijing - just in time to release this image ahead of tomorrow's Olympic Games opening ceremony. The building is a new headquarters and cultural centre for state broadcaster China Central Television. The following information is from OMA: -- China Central Television Headquarters

The building is a new headquarters and cultural centre for state broadcaster China Central Television.

The following information is from OMA:

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China Central Television Headquarters construction reaches new milestone as façade is completed

The final panels of the glass facade of OMA’s CCTV building have been installed, marking a crucial stage in the construction of the new TV station for China’s national broadcaster, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren.

Construction of the 600,000 square meter project began in September 2004 on the 20 hectare site of an abandoned motorcycle factory in Beijing’s new Central Business District. After connecting the two leaning towers in December 2007 and topping out structural steel works this March, the CCTV building is due for completion end of 2009, whilst the adjacent Television Cultural Centre (TVCC), including the hotel operated by Mandarin Oriental is expected to open early next year. The third building on the site, the circular service building, is in operation and is presently being used for broadcasting of the Olympic Games.

OMA partner in charge of the project Ole Scheeren said from Beijing: “After 6 years of intense collaboration with our client CCTV, our Chinese partners ECADI, and the engineers of ARUP, we are very pleased to see the successful completion of the exterior of the project on time for the Olympics. As the building now stands visibly in the city, it has added the three-dimensional figure of a loop to Beijing’s skyline of towers. It appears big yet sometimes small, and from every angle offers a completely different perspective and reading. We are hopeful to see the building emerge as a symbol of collaboration and change.”

Once completed, the CCTV building will transform the usually inaccessible environment of media and television production and give access to the public via the ‘Visitor’s Loop’, a dedicated path of circulation, which allows people to view and experience multiple aspects of the production process. The lowest floor of the overhang, the large cantilever projecting out 75 meters horizontally in 162 meters height, will feature a public media museum and a viewing deck with sights across the city and vertically down through circular glass floor openings.

The facades of CCTV portray the irregular geometry of the building’s steel structure. Its sometimes dense, sometimes more open grid of diagonals forms the stability system of the building and reflects the distribution of forces that the structure experiences under different load conditions.

The construction of the buildings is led by Ole Scheeren from OMA’s Beijing offices, along with project manager Dongmei Yao, project architects Anu Leinonen and Andre Schmidt, and a team of dedicated architects.